Kathleen Lynch

Kathleen Lynch completed her Master of Science in Physiotherapy in 2009 at Dalhousie University and her Bachelor of Arts (Honours) at McGill University in 2005. She is a physiotherapist at TVCC (formerly Thames Valley Children’s Centre) and Children’s Hospital at LHSC working in the Paediatric Pain Program. She has worked her entire career in paediatrics, completing several postgraduate courses related to chronic pain, orthopedics, neuromotor development, and early intervention. She is recognized for her expertise in paediatric chronic pain. Ms. Lynch is presently the Paediatric Lead in the Ontario Chronic Pain Network, as Operations Manager for the Executive Committee representing all the publicly funded chronic pain programs in Ontario. She is also the co-chair of the Ontario Paediatric Conference Task Force, organizing a large educational conference for paediatric chronic pain healthcare providers annually. She was instrumental in creating the initial design for the newly developed Paediatric Surgical Pain Pathway (a multimodal approach to decreasing children’s surgical pain) at Children’s Hospital, and she is a co-investigator in ongoing research related to this pathway. She lectures at the School of Physiotherapy at UWO, and regularly supervises and mentors physiotherapy Masters students. In her spare time, she volunteers as a national-level classifier for Boccia, a paralympic sport for wheelchair athletes, and has done volunteer work in Haiti working with local therapists and young children, helping to train therapists in paediatric therapy techniques.